Embed from Getty Images Four people who were part of a convoy evacuating the besieged districts of east Aleppo were killed by Syrian government forces, witnesses told Al Jazeera, before the agreement to evacuate...

Since the multiple attacks in Paris that killed 130 people earlier this month, Syrian refugees have gone from being mainly an issue concerning Europe’s borders to an unexpected focal point of the U.S. presidential...

Amid intensifying domestic debate over whether the United States should accept Syrian refugees, President Barack Obama urged Americans to lend a helping hand to those fleeing war and persecution at the hands of militants...